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The breakdown in spots for the 32 nation final round is as such:
* Europe (UEFA): 13 places
* Africa (CAF): 5 places (+ South Africa qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 6 places)
* South America (CONMEBOL): 4 or 5 places
* Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places
* North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places
* Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place

The "or" qualifiers are decided with a knockout playoff between OFC and AFC, as well as CONCACAF and CONMEBOL

THE MAPGreen - Team qualified for the World Cup.Blue - Team may still qualify for the World Cup.Pink - Team cannot qualify for the World Cup, but still has qualifying matches left.Red - Team eliminated from World Cup qualifying.Purple - Country did not enter World Cup.Grey - Country is not part of FIFA.

Hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position “1” of their group

Groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4

Geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.

Thus, Pot 1 will be drawn first in order from B to H. Then Pot 2 will be drawn from A to H.

Pot 3 brings up geographic clashing prevention, thus the first two African teams drawn will be placed into the Groups headed by Brazil and Argentina. The first South American team to be drawn from Pot 3 will be placed in Group A with South Africa.

Pot 4 will be drawn from A to H, geographic clash prevention is overlooked in the case of European teams.

Complete World Cup Group Stage Schedule
By day (all times Eastern). Top two from each group advances to knockout rounds. All games also available streaming on http://espn3.com US matches are in bold.Friday, June 11
Group A
10:00 AM: South Africa vs. Mexico (ESPN)
2:30 PM: Uruguay vs. France (ESPN)

ESPN 3 is the online streaming version of the popular sports network in the U.S.A. Their upcoming live streaming schedule includes the kick-off on June 10th, the opening ceremonies on June 11th followed by the FIFA World Cup matches. According to the NY Times, ESPN 3 will be streaming all 64 games.

ESPN Mobile TV will be streaming the kick-off, opening ceremonies and 56 world cup matches including semifinals and final to Sprint customers on the new HTC EVO smartphone, according to MarketWatch.

CBC Sports is Canada's national public broadcaster. The CBC Sports website states "Between June 11th and July 11th 2010 watch every game streamed LIVE on CBCSports.ca".

Optus is the #2 Australian telecommunications carrier and will be live streaming 2010 World Cup matches for free to customers with compatible 3G mobile devices.

TVU Networks is a live streaming Internet TV platform and, according to Ask MetaFilter, should be carrying the 2010 World Cup.

BBC Sport states that "All BBC matches will be available to watch live online in high quality video" according to this article, which also contains a schedule of which matches are on the BBC and which will be on iTV.

iTV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. According to their FIFA World Cup Live description they will have select content from all 64 games, and be broadcasting live any matches that iTV carries.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time. It was a foul, and therefore a penalty. There's nothing to debate, it's one of the clearest penalties I've ever seen.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time.

nope

You may as well try to argue that the sun is made of custard. The replay speaks for itself, it was a foul, end of story.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time.

nope

You may as well try to argue that the sun is made of custard. The replay speaks for itself, it was a foul, end of story.

I never said it wasn't a foul. I said he wasn't kicked.

At no point in that entire video does a force of impact come from the direction the keeper is sliding, if you actually watched the slow motion angles.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time.

nope

You may as well try to argue that the sun is made of custard. The replay speaks for itself, it was a foul, end of story.

I never said it wasn't a foul. I said he wasn't kicked.

At no point in that entire video does a force of impact come from the direction the keeper is sliding, if you actually watched the slow motion angles.

That has nothing to do with anything. If you stick your foot out and trip someone up it's a foul. The rules don't need to be changed just because you can't understand them once every 4 years.

I don't know enough about soccer to argue, but if the tip of one toe barely touching the tip of another toe followed by a dive is worth a red card, then this game needs better rules

You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time.

nope

You may as well try to argue that the sun is made of custard. The replay speaks for itself, it was a foul, end of story.

I never said it wasn't a foul. I said he wasn't kicked.

At no point in that entire video does a force of impact come from the direction the keeper is sliding, if you actually watched the slow motion angles.